Link: Diane on Whidbey Island - Classic Film Costumier for Dolls

You know you're obsessed with classic films when you spend hours, days and weeks recreating costumes from the films in miniature for sma...

Friday, October 29, 2010
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On the Lam: Origin of a Gangster's Term

"'Slang,' as the poet Carl Sandburg has said, 'is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to wor...

Wednesday, October 27, 2010
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Moonfleet (1955)

Did you catch Moonfleet (1955) on TCM the other day? Is George Sanders in every movie ever made in the 1950s? Check your home movies; he’...

Tuesday, October 26, 2010
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Betty on Betty

Looking around on my shelf I spy lyricist-playwright Betty Comden ’s memoirs Off Stage . Let’s randomly leaf through and find an anecdote… ...

Sunday, October 24, 2010
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Quote of the Day: Ingrid Bergman

Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress. - Ingr...

Sunday, October 17, 2010
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Java has been LAMB Chopped

Joem18b,  of  Does Writing Excuse Watching , submitted one of Java's blog posts to the October 12th LAMB Chop this year. I had no i...

Friday, October 15, 2010
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Quote of the Day: Paul Newman

I'm always puzzled by this talk about star . . . image. I think there's people who are writers or barbers or mechanics or race car d...

Wednesday, October 13, 2010
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Career Girl (1944) starring Frances Langford

Java has a pack of public domain movie musicals. Here's one of them.  Career Girl (1944) stars singer Frances Langford in a poverty ro...

Friday, October 08, 2010
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Classic Movie Stars on Twitter part 2: Carrie Fisher on Eddie Fisher's Death

Dame Elizabeth Taylor 's Twitter account follows Carrie Fisher 's tweets. The entertainer/Princess Leia/ Debbie Reynolds ' da...

Wednesday, October 06, 2010
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Classic Movie Stars on Twitter part 1: Dame Elizabeth Taylor Tweets

Or at least she did until July of 2010. The classic movie legend and star of National Velvet and Cat On a Hot Tin Roof has not updated in...

Wednesday, October 06, 2010
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5 Reasons to Miss Brick-and-Mortar Movie Rental Stores

Gertrude enjoys in-store retail therapy at Cartier's You might have heard that movie rental giant Blockbuster Video has filed for ban...

Tuesday, October 05, 2010
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Gene Kelly's 1958 TV Special

In Gene Kelly's obituary in the New York Times , columnist Albin Krebs mentions that in 1958, Mr. Kelly “conceived, wrote, narrated and...

Friday, October 01, 2010
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